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Girls Who Don't Get the City

from Fish from the Sky by E.G. Phillips

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about

This song languished unfinished for a while as "Girls Who Don't Like the City" -- when I realized "Like" should be "Get," then it all fell more or less into place. To those that are unfamiliar with "Baghdad by the Bay" as the eponymous city is sometimes referred, a lot of the lyric probably sounds like nonsense. Pretty nonsense, I would hope. Sometimes someone in the audience will assume I'm ragging on them, which is usually not (entirely) the case. I'm really hoping such a creature as described here doesn't actually exist.

lyrics

She shops union square
Once tried Folsom Street Fair
Since then she’s never ventured south
Of Market Street

Confuses Bush with Pine
Likes pier 39
And some mediocre Italian joint
In North Beach

Some Girls Just Don’t Get The City

She tours Alcatraz
And she has to have
A little red buddha and some
Finger cuffs

Rides cable cars
Crawls Marina bars
She thinks it’s so weird that
It’s pronounced “Goff”

Some Girls Just Don’t Get The City

Those that do
Just won’t seem to do
Why couldn’t you
Just get the city?

[break]

Some Girls Just Don’t Get The City

Those that do
Just won’t seem to do
Why couldn’t you
Just get the city?

Uber down JFK
Tea garden, beach chalet
Never realized how much there was
In between

It’s Its, Three Twins
Bi-Rite and Smitten
But Ben and Jerry’s at
Haight and Ashbury?

Some Girls Just Don’t Get The City
Some Girls Just Don’t Get The City
Some Girls Just Don’t Get The City

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from Fish from the Sky, released February 7, 2017
E.G. Phillips - vocals, acoustic guitar
Ryan Clark - drums, electric bass, vocals
Rory Cloud - lead guitar

produced and recorded by Ryan Clark
mixing, mastering and drum engineering by Steven Glaze at Tone Freq

music and lyrics by E.G. Phillips
© 2017 E.G. Phillips / Ducks With Pants Music, all rights reserved

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E.G. Phillips San Francisco, California

E.G. Phillips is a San Francisco based songwriter who creates lyric driven songs with his own special blend of whimsy and cinematic imagery which he uses to give a wry take on dealing with the longings of the heart and the madness of existence.

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